August Herrström
Lead DevOps & Platform Engineer
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Email: augustherrstrom@gmail.com
Location: Malmö, Sweden
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Lead DevOps and Platform Engineer with a full-stack background and over 10 years of experience building scalable systems, automating infrastructure and leading engineering teams. Focused on cloud-native, vendor-agnostic platforms and secure, maintainable AI automation, grounded in open source, pragmatic engineering and reliable operations.
Work experience
StickerApp AB, Lomma, Sweden
Lead DevOps Engineer · May 2022–Present
- Introduced Kubernetes-based GitOps with Argo CD, Kustomize and Rancher, establishing declarative and version-controlled deployments
- Built and operated self-hosted AI agent platforms integrating LLM providers, tools and messaging services, with secure secrets management and least-privilege access
- Migrated the primary database to a new cloud provider with less than one hour of downtime
- Built a high-performance custom Traefik middleware for authentication and authorization, enabling SSO and role-based access control (RBAC) across internally developed services, as well as API key access control for public endpoints and service-to-service communication
- Containerized a legacy monolith with Docker and migrated it to a new hosting provider
- Automated remote development server setup, cutting onboarding time by 50%
- Introduced automated preview deployments for pull requests, with automated tests validating each environment before review and merge
- Established observability with Grafana and Prometheus, configured service-failure alerts, participated in on-call incident response, and implemented automated security scanning
- Partnered with management and HR to recruit and onboard developers and technical leads
Technical Lead · April 2021–May 2022
- Led a team of 5 engineers, providing technical direction, delivery support and professional development
- Led the department’s transition from Gitflow to GitHub Flow and modernized CI/CD with GitHub Actions, increasing release frequency from weekly to multiple releases per day
- Built and operated a scalable, globally distributed AWS platform for file uploads and asynchronous processing via REST APIs, with infrastructure managed through AWS CDK
- Improved database scalability and maintainability through schema normalization, indexing and automated database migrations in deployment pipelines
Full-Stack Web Developer · October 2016–April 2021
- Developed APIs and microservices using Node.js and Java (Spring Boot)
- Operated application infrastructure across Linux, Docker, Nginx, Apache and MySQL
- Integrated Stripe and Adyen payment solutions into customer-facing services
- Maintained data integrations for Qlik Sense, delivered reporting datasets and developed dashboards for internal use
Cloudmap AB, Malmö, Sweden
Consultant · January 2015–October 2016
- Designed high-volume data pipelines for Region Skåne, processing medical and financial records daily
- Built REST APIs in C# (.NET) and maintained Microsoft SQL Server environments
Devv IT AB, Helsingborg, Sweden
Consultant · 2014
- Developed C#/.NET backend solutions and integrated Klarna payments for an e-commerce platform
Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Lab Assistant, MySQL Course · 2013
- Mentored 20+ students in SQL and relational database concepts
Education
Malmö University
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Game Development · 2011–2014
Technical Skills
- Cloud & Platform: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, AWS CDK, Rancher, Traefik
- Delivery & Observability: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Kustomize, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus
- Back-End: Node.js, PHP (CodeIgniter), Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET), Go
- Front-End: Svelte, React, jQuery, Bootstrap, Tailwind, Vite, Astro
- Data & BI: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, DynamoDB, Power BI, Qlik Sense, Mage.ai
- AI & Automation: AI agents, LLM integrations, tool orchestration, self-hosted inference, Hermes Agent, GitHub Copilot
- Testing & Security: Playwright, Vitest, k6, Bruno, SonarQube, Nuclei
- Engineering Practices: GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, automated testing, least-privilege security
Languages
- Swedish (Native)
- English (Fluent)